gezellig
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Dutch
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle Dutch gesellich, equivalent to gezel + -ig. Cognate with German gesellig.
Pronunciation
Adjective
gezellig (comparative gezelliger, superlative gezelligst)
- Having an inviting and friendly ambiance; cozy, nice, pleasant, sociable.
- 1760, “Groot-Britannie”, in Middelburgsche courant, number 21, page 1:
- Voor 7 jaren werd hy van eene beroerte aangetast, doch herſtelde in 6 weken, en behield alleen een weinig belemmering in de ſpraak, het welk zyn onderhoud moejelyker maakte; doch hy bleef even gezellig.
- Seven years ago he suffered a stroke, yet he recovered in 6 weeks, and retained only a small impediment in his speech, which made his basic needs difficult to fulfill; yet he stayed just as pleasant.
- 1899, “Zuipreglement”, in Het volksdagblad, number 1110, page 2:
- En het is niet behoorlijk door dwang het gezellig samenzijn te doen ontaarden in ruwe zuipgelagen, waarbij de groenen als lijken moeten worden weggedragen.
- And it is not proper to turn a cozy get-together by force into a crude drinking party, where greenhorns have to be carried away like corpses.
- 1966, “Snippers”, in De nieuwe Limburger, number 181, page 5:
- In de lokalen van het WMC-secretariaat is het reuze gezellig. Daar draaien meisjes plaatjes tijdens het werk en denken stoute jongetjes grappige plannetjes uit.
- It's very sociable in the offices of the WMC secretariat. There, girls listen to records during worktime and the naughty boys think of funny plans.
Inflection
| Inflection of gezellig | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | gezellig | |||
| inflected | gezellige | |||
| comparative | gezelliger | |||
| positive | comparative | superlative | ||
| predicative/adverbial | gezellig | gezelliger | het gezelligst het gezelligste | |
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | gezellige | gezelligere | gezelligste |
| n. sing. | gezellig | gezelliger | gezelligste | |
| plural | gezellige | gezelligere | gezelligste | |
| definite | gezellige | gezelligere | gezelligste | |
| partitive | gezelligs | gezelligers | — | |
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- Matthias de Vries, Lambert Allard te Winkel (1864) “gezellig”, in Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal, published 2001
Further reading
Untranslatability on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
